Senior Moments

I expect that many if not most of us have experienced what is referred to as a “senior moment.” You’re looking for a word, and you can’t get it; or you’re trying to remember a name, and it won’t come to you.  Senior moments are part of the natural human condition, but the reading from Deuteronomy today tells us that we should not have senior moments when it comes to our spiritual life—that we need to remember what we have received and be grateful for the graces that are ours.

In Deuteronomy we heard, “Be on guard not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your memory as long as you live.”  Maybe our Lenten observance today can be a time to recall, reflect, and remember the blessings, the graces that are ours.

Monsignor Daniel Hoye